Deaths from Accidents or Misadventure
Detailed here are some deaths that required an inquest to be held. See also reports of road traffic incidents or transport related deaths
29/02/1840. Sarah Hearn (6 month old) the child of a labourer died from burns. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
02/05/ 1840. William Robinson (b 1817)) occupation was given as a carpenter, at the age of 23 he hanged himself – ‘being a lunatic’. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams)
13/06/1841. Richard Bloom (age 19) a labourer who died from the kick of an ass in the body (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
29/08/1842. John Southgate (age 66) a farm bailiff died ‘by lightning’. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
29/08/1842.Robert Sillett (8 year old child) also died ‘by lightning’. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
16/01/1844. George Pegg (4 year old son of Robert Pegg, a labourer) he died accidentally from burns (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
11/10/1844. Jeremiah Baker (age 50) is decribed as a farming man who died from hemorrhage of the illiac vessels which were ruptured by the kick of a horse. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
13/12/1844 Mary Ann Eames ( 4y and 3 mth old daughter of John Eames burned accidentally (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
27/11/1847. Richard Remplen (40 yr old labourer) accientally suffered in a sand pit.
19/01/1848. David Culley (4 yr old son of John, a gas fitter) drowned by accident.(Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
10/07/1857.Susannah Pegg ( 2 year old daughter of a servant) died from over-distention of the stomach from eating cabbage (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
01/08/ 1854. William Culley (son of John (gasman) and brother of David -see above) drowned age 13, ruled an accident. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
17/05/ 1855. William Taylor ( 60 yr old farmer) was found drowned, ruled due to ‘lunancy” (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams).
04/12/1859. William Pegg ( 7 week old baby, son of John and ag lab) ‘sudden supposed suffocation after eating a meal (no medical man). (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams)
08/11/1860. John Ames (61 yr old ag lab) ‘self destruction by cutting his throat while in a state of temporary insanity. (Stowmarket LHG archive, data collated by Steve Williams)
28th December 1917, the Bury and Norwich Post carried a report on the sudden death of a young child, Doris May Gooch. The daughter of Mrs Ethel Gooch and her husband from Creeting. death was put down to cerebro-spinal meningitis but could not be confirmed as the organism died at the time of the child’s death so was not found in the serum test sample.
The year is unknown but early 20th century. Dorrie Robinson, following a colostomy is thought to have taken her own life. The Rev Brame in As I Remember It, tells us that ‘at last she could bear it no longer, and walked out of the house during a heavy fall of snow, dressed in a smart skirt and silk blouse, crept quietly down Creeting Lane, came to a spot where the snow had drifted in the bitter northeast wind to a depth of several feet and threw herself into it. When she was reported missing, we all of us joined in the search, but it took us a long time to find her, because the continuous snowfall covered her footprints. Her death certificate said that she had died of pneumonia, I suppose because hypothermia would have needed an inquest, which would have been embarrassing for the doctors and the family.’
In April 1963, Alec P. Disney age 48 (b. 12/9/15) was found dead, lying face down in a shallow ditch on the road to Old Newton. His tradesman bike was found some distance away.
